Based on: Board games

Adaptation from board games is a quite straight-forward pattern for many location-based mobile games. Many early games where adaptations of board games (e.g. Geo tic tac toe).

In most cases though, the modifications in the rules that are required for a good adaptation is not straightforward. Location-based mobile games impose a range of restrictions and open new possibilities (a good overview is the list of heuristics).

Examples of board games that can be a base for adaptation are:

• Scrabble (which was the basis for MuseumScrabble and its offshoots CityScrabble, CarnivalScrabble, If in Monemvasia..., Treasure in Tzoumerka.
• Monopoly
• … (A quick search in the literature on location-based mobile games will reveal plenty of examples).

Based on: Videogames

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